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Network. Apple TV+. Release. September 24, 2021. (2021-09-24) –. present. (present) Foundation is an American science fiction television series created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman for Apple TV+, loosely based on the Foundation series of stories by Isaac Asimov.
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last updated 24 September 2021
Foundation has arrived on Apple TV Plus
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Foundation has finally arrived on Apple TV Plus. The epic sci-fi TV show's first two episodes landed on the streamer on Friday, September 24, so it's time to immerse yourself in this new space opera tale.
Foundation is available to watch now on Apple TV Plus. The first two episodes are available to view on the streamer, with new entries releasing weekly on Apple's streaming platform.
The official Apple TV webpage for the series had confirmed that it was coming this year and, after we tentatively predicted it would arrive around September, that ended up being the case.
Foundation took 19 months to film due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Principal photography ended in April 2021, with some of the show's cast – Leah Harvey and Lou Llobell, who will portray Salvor Hardin and Gaal Dornick respectively – confirming as much via Instagram soon after.
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With episodes available to the press ahead of release, we know who is directing every entry in episode 1.
Apple released a final trailer for Foundation season 1 on August 19. The latest footage gives longtime fans and intrigued newcomers a much clearer idea of how it'll look, as well as what the plot will entail.
There's plenty of action and thrilling drama within the near three-minute long trailer, too, which stands us in good stead for another potentially excellent sci-fi offering in the near future.
Check out the new trailer below:
Alongside Foundation's launch date reveal, Apple released a two-minute long trailer that also whetted our appetite. You can check out this batch of footage below:
Finally, in August 2020, a two-minute long first-look trailer was released on Apple TV’s social media channels, which gave us our first glimpse at the series.
The video begins with a brief overview from Goyer about how Foundation has shaped other cultural phenomena including Star Wars, before moving into a 90-second teaser composed of shot footage and CGI moments:
Foundation is a compendium of sci-fi novels written by Isaac Asimov. The US author’s series is made up of seven books, with the core trilogy – Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation – comprising eight short stories that, after being released individually, were published as three collections in the early 1950s.
According to Apple TV’s synopsis, Foundation “chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire”.
The series initially follows Hari Seldon, a mathematical genius who explains that, unless humanity changes course, the Galactic Empire will fall and be followed by a 30,000-year period of turmoil before a second Empire rises. Seldon, though, reveals that he has foreseen an alternate path that allows the intervening period to be reduced to 1,000 years if certain criteria are met.
At the behest of the Empire’s reluctant rulers, Seldon creates the Foundation – a group of the greatest living scientists, engineers, and historians – which travels to a remote planet known as Terminus. There, the assembled humans are tasked with preserving an anthology of humanity’s knowledge – the Encyclopedia Galactica – so that, at the end of the millennium, a second Empire may begin.
Traveling to a new world in Terminus may present problems for Seldon's contingent, however and that includes something known as the Vault. This mysterious floating object is mentioned in Asimov's novels (and greets Seldon's party on Terminus in Apple's adaptation) and, as Goyer revealed to Entertainment Weekly, it might hold the key to some of the show's biggest secrets.
"We'll definitely find out what's in the Vault in the season, although there are other mysteries to reveal about the Vault in later seasons," Goyer teased. "All we know is that Salvor Hardin [Leah Harvey] has a very special relationship to the Vault."
A number of established stars and newcomers have been cast for Foundation:
•Jared Harris as Hari Seldon
•Lee Pace as Brother Day
•Lou Llobell as Dr. Gaal Dornick
•Alfred Enoch as Raych Seldon
•Leah Harvey as Salvor Hardin
It’s not been for a want of trying, even though multiple studios have found it tough to adapt Asmiov's novels in the past.
New Line Cinema spent $1.5 million developing a movie adaptation of the trilogy in 1998 but subsequently failed. A decade later, New Line’s co-founders Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne attempted to produce a Foundation film series for Warner Bros. through their Unique Pictures production company, but were beaten to the screen rights by Columbia Pictures. Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, White House Down) was brought on to direct alongside sci-fi screenwriter Dante Harper, but the project failed to get off the ground.
Things went quiet until HBO acquired the rights in 2014. Signing up Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight, Interstellar) as showrunner and producer, the US network spent three years trying to adapt Asimov’s works into a TV series. However, in June 2017, it was reported that Skydance Media was developing a Foundation TV series instead.
Jump ahead to August 2018, and it was confirmed that Apple had ordered a 10-episode straight-to-series order in collaboration with Skydance’s Television division. Goyer and Josh Friedman were installed as co-writers and co-showrunners until April 2019, when Friedman departed the project in an apparently planned move. Goyer, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, and Robyn Asimov – daughter of Isaac – are executive producers on the series.
Curiously, Goyer has revealed that Apple's executives were on board with his live-action adaptation after a single sentence pitch.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about the show, the Man of Steel and Terminator: Dark Fate helmer explained that, after he was asked to pitch Asimov's convoluted story in the simplest of terms, his reply convinced Apple to press on with the series.
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Feb 1, 2022 · Apple TV+ today shared a first look at the highly anticipated second season of “Foundation,” the epic saga from storyteller David S. Goyer and produced for Apple by Skydance Television, and revealed new cast that will star alongside Emmy Award nominees Jared Harris and Lee Pace in the new season.
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Aug 19, 2021 · “Foundation” will debut globally September 24, 2021, exclusively on Apple TV+. Apple TV+ today released the trailer for “Foundation,” the highly anticipated epic saga based on Isaac Asimov’s timeless trilogy of the same name.
